Entertainment
Tolerable levels of cute
We’ve all been there, that moment in time when destiny knocks on the door, and we’d rather just yell “Go away, I already have plans!” So it’s easy to identify with E.B., the drum-playing rocker in the lead role of Hop. His destiny? He has to take over for his dad as ...
A contraption, but it works
Call it strangeness on a train. The highly gimmicky, very entertaining new thriller Source Code takes place mostly on a passenger car, part of the fictional Chicago Commuter Rail line, speeding toward the Loop carrying a bomb planted by an unknown terrorist. Our ...
Still Super
Supergroup is a rather overused term. Publicists throw it around every time a number of musicians come together under a new identity or project. The New Pornographers might have it backwards, but they’ve nonetheless become such an entity all the same...
From the schoolyard to the stage
Phrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005...
Going old-school DJ
With jangly earrings and an innocent smile, you would never guess Ana Sia was taking the stage to rip your mind apart...
Netflix nabs ‘Mad Men’ rerun rights
LOS ANGELES — Netflix, in a sign of its growing importance in television, will become Don Draper's second home...
‘Divorce Court’ judge had to overcome her own marital problems
PASADENA, Calif. — She may be the presiding judge on the syndicated show "Divorce Court," but Lynn Toler had to pass more than the bar to get there...
Review: The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey
Billed as modern interpretation of a classic shamanic journey, The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey combines film, music and lighting to try and create a surreal, out-of-body, perhaps even religious experience for its audience. In the case of the audience at the Boulder...
‘Mad Men’ creator Matt Weiner agrees to new deal
LOS ANGELES — "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner has signed a new deal to remain with the cult cable show for at least two more seasons...
Lionsgate signs Tyler Perry to a new three-year deal
LOS ANGELES — Lionsgate has renewed its movie and home entertainment agreement with its most prolific supplier, filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry...
